Consensual Reality

“The researchers at Yale were looking for a group of people who hear voices at least once a day, and had never before interacted with the mental-health-care system. They wanted to understand, as Burletta put it, those who do not suffer when ‘the mind deviates from consensual reality.’

…Every psychiatrist I spoke to shared the belief that unusual behavior should only enter into the realm of diagnosis when it causes suffering.

‘Much of what we perceive and believe about the world is based on our expectations and our beliefs,’ Corlett said.”